[Various potions used in the Grand Academy of Lagado] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [Various potions used in the Grand Academy of Lagado]
Subject: Scholars in Literature; Fictional Works; Fictitious Characters; Imaginary Places; Imaginary Creatures; Scientists in Literature
Period: 1850-1900;
Geographic: Balnibarbi; Lagado; Laputa; England
Description: During his time on Balnibarbi Gulliver visited the Grand Academy of Lagado and the scholars who worked there. Here we see some of the chemicals and other materials used by scientists at the Academy. There is the letter I in the top corner as this image appears at the beginning of chapter six, and the first word of the chapter is In.
Image Creator: T. Morten (Engraver)
Type: StillImage; Woodcut Engraving
Identifier: mta:22074
Language: eng
Source Name: Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Regions of the World
Parent Collection: 1865 London Morten
Image: mta_22074_OBJ.png